West Virginia plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear for a second time a case over the state’s restrictions on transgender student-athletes, its attorney general said Wednesday. “This is a significant case to bring to the Supreme Court,
West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act specifies that sports teams for girls and women “shall not be open to students of the male sex.” That prohibits a transgender girl from
Twenty-five states have approved measures barring transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s scholastic sports, but West Virginia could become the first to have its law taken up by the Supreme Court.
The status of West Virginia laws preventing transgender girls from participating on girls and women’s sports teams became less clear this week following a federal court decision on whether a middle schooler should be allowed to participate in cross country and track.